Once again, science has called upon its estranged sister art for inspiration.
The result is some uber-cool, flashy technology that is bound to pull on the geek-strings in many of us techno-junkies.
I’ve just recently set up Google AdSense on my site in a vain attempt to see if I can make a little dough at this blogging stuff—at least enough to pay for the service. They’re supposed to offer contextually relevant ads based on the content of the site. I wanted to see exactly what kind of context they would derive from my site, since I really didn’t think there was any.
On some pages, I got some ads for Michael Crichton’s new book which made sense since I have an entire section dedicated to book reviews. In the Decision Impossible 05-06 section there were ads for the CBC.ca news site—so far so good. Then came the ads for Punta Cana Breeze Deals. This one didn’t make much sense to me, but hey…I liked the pictures…they made me feel warm…after all, it is -10° C outside today. Finally, I found an ad in the Minority Report section called Video Gesture Technology.
Cool! I thought to myself. So I clicked it.
The link took me to a company website called GestureTek. They’re one of these cool companies that create new, innovative technology that is high in novelty, but low on practicality (at least on the surface) and probably won’t be industry standard until Microsoft buys them out.
If you’re into cool new technology and gadgets, this site maybe worth a little browse. The company specializes in creating immersible, interactive multimedia environments using the human body as the controller—instead of a mouse, or a touch-screen.
At the root of this technology, seems to be their product called GestPoint. This may look familiar to people who have seen the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, in which Cruise’s character interfaces with a computer using a series of hand gestures. I recommend that you check out the Intro Video on the product, it’s pretty cool.
Now it’s obvious what context Google’s system took when placing this particular ad on my site. It’s an honest mistake, made by an unassuming crawling Googlebot that just doesn’t know any better. Sounds kind of icky, doesn’t it?
At any rate. I’ll apologize in advance if the content of some of the ads on my site isn’t exactly pertinent. But hey…you never know what could be on the other side of that click. It may not be relevant but chances are, it’s a lot better than the tripe I’m feeding you here.
What are you thinking?